Afrikaans epithetical, suffixoidal, metonymic, exocentric attributive compounds

Many languages in the world, including Afrikaans, use exocentric compounds to form personal names, like French garde-malade (watches-sick.person ‘nurse’). These kinds of compounds are also sometimes in the literature known as bahuvrihi or possessive compounds (e.g., Booij 2020), and viewed by some scholars (e.g., Schlücker 2023) as not truly exocentric. Despite Scalise, Fábregas, and Forza (2009, 52) finding that “Germanic languages are not significantly characterised by exocentric compounding”, numerous studies of individual Germanic languages have been published in the past. For example, Van... Mehr ...